After thinking for a while, Charles asked the second mate and the first mate to come to the captain's room to discuss countermeasures.
Although the current situation does not seem dangerous, it is indeed a dilemma. It is difficult to guarantee where the white ball will appear if they leave now. What if it directly wraps up the Narwhal next time
The result of the discussion came out quickly. The exploration of the white ball must continue. This time, a real person would go up. Since the mouse was fine, the real person should be fine too.
The candidates were quickly chosen. There were only a few crew members on the Narwhal who could fly, and the final candidates were the two vampires.
"Look carefully, and try to see the details on it." Charles instructed to Odrick.
The other party nodded and said, "Don't worry, Captain. I promise to help you figure out what that thing is."
Soon the two bats flew quickly towards the white ball in the distance. Looking at their backs, Charles thought for a moment and said, "Move the boat a little closer. The steam in the turbine is always full and ready to move at any time."
As the Narwhal approached, the "white ping-pong ball" in the distance became the size of four moons.
This close distance allowed Charles to clearly see the large and small holes on the white ball. From this angle, the holes were connected in series, and inexplicably looked a bit like a roaring skull.
"Gudong~" Linda swallowed nervously, her hands shaking slightly. She was worried about her husband.
Grace, who was standing next to her, was also encountering this kind of situation for the first time. She anxiously switched her gaze back and forth between the white ball and the faces of the crew members.
The other crew members were fine as they had already gotten used to it.
Soon half an hour passed, and the two people on the ball still did not move. They did not move, but the ball began to have new changes.
At the beginning, Charles thought he was dazzled, but when he found that the opponent's size was gradually increasing, he immediately ordered a quick retreat.
Fortunately, this time was different from the previous times. The Narwhal was far enough away from the white ball and had enough time to dodge, and the white ball did not keep a close eye on the Narwhal and chase it.
Charles and the others easily dodged the opponent's movements, but the two vampires never came out again.
Everyone watched as the white ball changed from a sphere to a half sphere and finally to a white pancake, and then disappeared into the darkness. This time, Charles looked more carefully and even saw details on the white ball that he had not noticed before.
When she saw Baiqiu and her husband disappear completely, "Da~" Linda's tears flowed across her expressionless face, condensed into water droplets and dripped onto the deck.
"Don't be impatient! It's not certain yet!" Charles, with a serious expression, quickly took out his diary. When he turned to the latest page and found that there was no new content on it, he quickly took out a pencil and started drawing on it.
He painted the cross-section of the white ball at every second when it disappeared, focusing on the places where it disappeared.
Recalling the scene just now and looking at his own sloppy drawing, Charles took out an eraser, gently wiped the white ball on the paper, and then drew it again, repeating this several times.
"Did you discover something?" The first mate squatted down and looked at the picture of a half-moon in the diary with him.
"Well, there's something wrong with the way it disappears. I've seen that kind of disappearance before." Charles recalled the way the blackboard eraser attacked the worm, and it disappeared in the same way.
Thinking about how the white ball had disappeared and reappeared several times before, Charles felt a little relieved.
"Wait here. I think that thing will come back. It doesn't seem to be alive. It moves in a periodic pattern, just like an elevator."
When Charles saw the thing appear at the upper right of the Narwhal's twelve o'clock position, he immediately ordered the Narwhal to approach it.
As they got closer, the silver moonlight shone on everyone's faces, but this time, Charles, who was holding the telescope, showed a hint of joy on his face. He saw two crew members staggering out of the black hole! They were all fine! !
But just as the corners of his mouth rose, the two men hugged their heads and fell on the white ball in pain.
"Fly quickly! Come back quickly! Both of you!" the crew members shouted anxiously, but Odrick and the other man seemed to have lost consciousness and did not respond at all.
"You guys keep an eye on the boat! I'll bring them back!" Charles said, and he pushed hard on the edge of the boat with his right foot. His body instantly turned into a huge deformed bat and flew towards them.
When he came in front of the white sphere, looking at the tiny cracks winding and twisting on it, and the slightly burnt bones under the silver light, Charles knew why the mouse wanted to take a bite. It looked too much like a bone.
A huge transparent tentacle stretched out from the bone, picked up the two people and threw them towards Charles. Charles caught them with his claws and rushed towards the Narwhal.
When the two vampires fell to the ground in pain, all the crew members quickly surrounded them.
"Don't touch them! Spread out! Let me do it!" Linda, wearing gloves, rushed over quickly, squatted down, and began to check the physical condition of the two people.
"Dipper, drive the boat! Don't just stand there, we can't stay here any longer! Let's get out of here as soon as possible!!"
Charles half squatted after he finished speaking, watching the ship's doctor quickly examine the two men.
They looked very strange, with saliva constantly flowing from the corners of their mouths, their eyes constantly shaking like contacts, and their expressions looked very scared.
"What happened to them?"
"Not sure, there's no external injury!" Linda said, quickly reaching into their bodies and feeling around for their organs. "There's nothing wrong inside either, it looks like a mental problem."
"Audric!! It's me! If you can hear me, react!!"
As soon as Linda finished speaking while holding her husband's face, Odrick gasped and his throbbing eyeballs quickly returned to their original position.
After regaining his senses, he looked at Charles with a horrified expression, "Captain! There are too many in there! I don't want them!! They are still putting more in there!! I-I really can't stand it!!"
After he finished speaking, he instantly popped out his fangs and bit his own arm fiercely. After a few bites, the opponent's arm was instantly covered in blood.
Charles' heart moved, and transparent tentacles instantly popped out from the ground, trapping the other party tightly to prevent him from further self-harm.
"Calm down!! What on earth did you see?!" Charles raised his steel prosthetic limb and slapped him in the face.
(End of this chapter)